nnovation. Economics values were those associated with the marketplace, the creation of surplus and the pursuit of profit. Pacey argued that both of these values were those normally associated with experts and professional technologists and administrators. By contrast, user or need values were those associated with an awareness of the complexity of social formations, the understanding that technological solutions impact globally, and the desire and ability to pursue responsible solutions to problem situations. It should be clear at this point that the discourse on scholarly publication has been dominated by the first two sets of values. It should also be clear that this overemphasis is leading to a one sided and reified analysis of scholarly publication specifically, but information technology more generally, that is not taking into account a number of factors that, though not associated with a limited conceptualization of electronic journal publication, are nevertheless critical for a comprehensive evaluation of IT's impact on scholarly communication. As sociologists it is our job to build this analysis and respond to Betcherman's (1990) concern over the fact that sociologists have not turned more of their attention to examining the impacts of information technology. If after having read this paper on our experiences with scholarly publication at the EJS and some of the sociological issues that surround information technologies application to academe, you have become convinced of the need to consider some of the issues surrounding information technology, then I will have fulfilled the principle task I set out to accomplish.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES[1] The ARL home page is located at http://arl.cni.org. For a description of the purpose of ARL and a list of member libraries see http://www.lib.washington.edu/~tdowling/arl.html. Their list of electronic publications is located at ...
